EDUCATION:

• 1974 - B.A., University of Cincinnati; English major with 75 credit hours of
• Sciences (including Organic Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Physics, Biology;
• Bacteriology; Comparative Anatomy; Modem Physics; Acoustics; Oceanography).
• Staff writer/music reviewer University of Cincinnati News Record
• 1977 - Juris Doctor: Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire;
• Editorial Board of IDEA [PTC Research Foundation publication dealing with
• Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights]
• Associate Editor and Art Editor of Obiter Dictum [legal humor magazine]

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Supreme Court of Ohio, November 1977
• Supreme Court of Kentucky, April 1994
• United States District Court, Southern Ohio, December 1977
• United Stated District Court, Northern Ohio, July 1980
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky,
• September, 1987
• United State District Court, Western District of Kentucky, 2008
• U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, February 1978
• U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2001
• United States Supreme Court, July 1982

LEGAL PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Certified, American Board of Trial Advocacy in Trial Practice [NBTA certification]
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America [ATLA ] [now American Association for
• Justice (AAJ)] (member since 1976)
• Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers [OATL] (now Ohio Association for Justice) [OAJ]
• Hamilton County Trial Lawyers Association [Past President 2002 and 2003] *
• elected by my peers.
• Ohio State Bar Association
• Ohio State Bar Association College
• Cincinnati Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Past Chairman, Tort & Insurance Committee of Cincinnati Bar Assn.
• Emeritus member/lecturer, Federal Inns of Court
• LITIGATION ASSOCIATIONS
• Birth Trauma Litigation Group [Obstetrical Malpractice Group]
• Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group [TBI Group]
• Attorneys Information Exchange Group, Inc. [Auto industry - negligent design]
• JEEP Litigation Group [re: JEEP roll-over cases]
• DES Litigation Group [diethylstilbesterol pregnancy medication]
• Civil Rights Litigation Group

TRIAL EXPERIENCE:

• I have tried cases in Cincinnati; Columbus; Cleveland; Dayton, Lebanon, Hamilton,
• Ashtabula, Painesville, Ohio; Kentucky and West Virginia; (and appeared pro haec
• vice in New Mexico and Michigan).

APPELLATE EXPERIENCE:

• orally argued twelve (12) times before the Ohio Supreme Court
• orally argued before the Kentucky Supreme Court
• orally argued before the Michigan Supreme Court
• orally argued before the 1st, 2nd, 10th, 11th and 12th District Ohio Courts of Appeal;
• orally argued before the Federal 6th Circuit numerous times
• orally argued before the Federal 4th Circuit (Richmond, Virginia)